I frankly don't care anymore. But now you've asked, I think I know why I finally disengaged and started shrugging at the new storylines.
A small thing indicates why I stopped caring: The broken Tower. It's been many seasons since it got damaged in the Red War and yet it is still a wreck under repair. The problem with this game is that despite the Guardians and the Vanguard and all the power of the Light, nothing is getting rebuilt. The Guardians and the City have no agency.
They react, but don't rebuild or take the initiative. As the seasons progressed, I wanted to see Humanity start to win back and occupy all those old fallen and wrecked cities and colonies across the Solar System. It looked like that might happen for a while. In the Red War, the Vanguard went back to Titan and restarted the power on the old colony, and started taking the fight to the occupying Hive.
On IO, the planet was being explored by Asher Mir, and the enemies there were being pushed back. On the other planets, the Vanguard was active and fighting on many fronts. And then poof! It was all gone again. Half the planets were removed for...reasons.
So it was back to the City that never gets rebuilt, not the Tower, not the giant holes in the ground from bombs dropped in the Red War. Spinning our wheels, with even the new alliances with the Cabal and such barely making a dent in things. The old ruins remain ruins, and Humanity is still just hanging on with never any real progress after all this time. And it just got tiresome. Plus there were other problems.
Old enemies are never vanquished, they just come back in a different form. Then we find out the 'big bad' that has been orchestrating events was all along being manipulated by something worse...until we find out there's still another behind that one. Does anyone seriously think The Witness will be the final boss? Doubtful, so it's hard to get too worked up about its threatening approach. Hey, buddy, join the pile of dead enemies - at least temporarily, that is. Don't worry, you'll be back somehow one day.
To me, the story is now just an excuse to frame the season's events and missions, to add some flavor, like adding a bit of hot sauce to a dish. But the main dish is the gameplay, the joy of fighting waves of enemies with guns and space magic. The why barely matters anymore as long as I get cool guns and armor, there are interesting or fun(ish) events, and PvP, Gambit, etc, aren't too broken. That's enough for me.
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Edited by KannibalKlown: 9/5/2022 7:37:36 PMExpansion is tough. If there were any plans to expand, they were set back with the Red War. Their infrastructure was wrecked, and a lot of soldiers they could use to help protect the expansion were perma-killed during the Red War. Meanwhile, expand where? Most of the places we go in the Solar System are still infested with Hive or Vex or whatever. We weren't able to clear them out BEFORE the Red War, and now with our shrunken forces, it becomes even harder. All the while, giant invasion forces keep coming into the Solar System every other year with seemingly omniscient scanners to know where we are. So fine we expand and make a small colony on Mars and then BAM Oryx shows up. Or the Red Legion. Or the Black Fleet. Or whoever. At which point that small colony gets squashed like a bug.
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100% agree. No visible or tangible change whatsoever in any location to tell the player "Your efforts have real consequences". Nope! The Last City is still full of craters from a war we won 5 years ago!
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Yeah. It is funny how much I agree. I would love to support any and all projects to start going to places and re-building/structuring those areas. The closest thing we got was Savathùn and her new talent for decorating old rusted and pointless areas. I am sick of seeing the scars left behind from the destruction. Anyways thank you for your thoughts!
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"The closest thing we got was Savathùn and her new talent for decorating old rusted and pointless areas." That made me laugh hard. I hope other people respond to your post. I'm curious about how people feel too. Me, Although I'm not too concerned with the story anymore, I nevertheless still like the game. I think that is not too uncommon. Cheers.